Author: Jack O. Burns
Abstract: The Network for Exploration and Space Science (NESS) is one of the new teams selected in 2017 to be part of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). NESS conducts multifaceted and multidisciplinary research in the space sciences, including the areas of astrophysics, heliophysics, and exoplanetary science, that are enabled through human and robotic exploration of the Moon. Our team focuses on low radio frequency observations of the Sun, exoplanet systems, and the early Universe using the unique radio-quiet of the lunar farside and collaborative tools for exploration. The design of wide bandwidth receivers, prototype antennas, and arrays of radio dipoles on the lunar farside to investigate Cosmic Dawn, Heliophysics, and Extrasolar space weather are core activities within NESS, as well as the continuous research of theoretical and observational aspects of these subjects. NESS is developing designs and operational techniques for teleoperation of rovers on the lunar surface facilitated by the planned Deep Space Gateway in cis-lunar orbit. New experiments, using rover + robotic arms and Virtual Reality simulations, are underway to guide the development of deployment strategies for low frequency antennas via telerobotics. View presentation.
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